I don't have time for the long rant I would like, but I used to enjoy VH-1's Behind the Music. I don't even know when the last new one was made, and the only ones they re-run are Pantera and Ratt. Wanna Save The Music? Why not put some music back on television instead of bad reality television?
(also, I'm hooked on Celebrity Rehab/Sober House... and it is the epitome of bad reality television)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
I've enjoyed Drive-By Truckers since around 2004, when a friend turned me on to their Southern Rock Opera album (which was already a couple of years old).
Brighter Than Creation's Dark isn't new, its about a year and a half old at this point. I got it for Christmas but didn't immediately listen to it... I just wasn't in that mode. Their Austin City Limits performance reminded me that I needed to pull it out and listen to it - but I didn't right away. This is because I only have it on my iPod, and my headphones at work are plugged into the back of my computer and hard to get to, and THERE IS NO WAY TO COPY MUSIC FROM AND IPOD TO A COMPUTER THAT IT ISN'T SYNCHED TO THAT I AM AWARE OF.
One day this week I was upset on the way to work and felt that the best way to handle it was to shut my mouth, so that's what I did... and I listened to Brighter Than Creation's Dark on my iPod. I haven't been able to stop listening to this album since. I think its brilliant.
Here are some tracks from Brigher Than Creation's Dark. These are live, and I think it is legal for me to put them up here like this. I hope so, I'm trying to help not hurt. If you enjoy these tracks, please support the band by picking up the album.
SeeqPod - Playable Search
The Cubs won their first spring training game today, which means absolutely nothing, but I hope they are good this year.
Please leave a comment if you liked this, or hated it, or you know how to get music from an iPod to a computer that it wasn't synched with, or what happened to Blogger's spell checker.
Brighter Than Creation's Dark isn't new, its about a year and a half old at this point. I got it for Christmas but didn't immediately listen to it... I just wasn't in that mode. Their Austin City Limits performance reminded me that I needed to pull it out and listen to it - but I didn't right away. This is because I only have it on my iPod, and my headphones at work are plugged into the back of my computer and hard to get to, and THERE IS NO WAY TO COPY MUSIC FROM AND IPOD TO A COMPUTER THAT IT ISN'T SYNCHED TO THAT I AM AWARE OF.
One day this week I was upset on the way to work and felt that the best way to handle it was to shut my mouth, so that's what I did... and I listened to Brighter Than Creation's Dark on my iPod. I haven't been able to stop listening to this album since. I think its brilliant.
Here are some tracks from Brigher Than Creation's Dark. These are live, and I think it is legal for me to put them up here like this. I hope so, I'm trying to help not hurt. If you enjoy these tracks, please support the band by picking up the album.
SeeqPod - Playable Search
The Cubs won their first spring training game today, which means absolutely nothing, but I hope they are good this year.
Please leave a comment if you liked this, or hated it, or you know how to get music from an iPod to a computer that it wasn't synched with, or what happened to Blogger's spell checker.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I Promised Myself I'd Write More...
I promised myself I'd write more, but I don't have anything specific in mind, so I don't know what will shape up here. Jim Norton made the point that reality television has sold everybody on the idea that their lives are interesting, when in fact that is not true for most of us. I try not to be "that guy", and I'm not trying to be now. But I figure better to write about the nothingness around me and maybe grow as a writer than to sulk about how I'm sure I'd be a great writer if only I had a subject.
The first spring training games are tomorrow. I have mixed emotions about this because while I love the Cubs, the truth is that maybe the only thing more worthless than all-star games are pre-season games. The Cubs let me feeling pretty beatenup at the end of last season. They made some moves in the off season, the one that is bugging me is letting Kerry Wood go. He went to the Cleveland Indians, who I kind of think of as "The other Cubs", except that when the Indians make it to the post season they occasionally win games. For the last two years the Cubs have had a strict policy of not winning in the post season. I understand this makes it easier on the people who deal with the stats.
As I write this the Carolina Hurricanes are losing, badly, in the background. The Canes have become only the second team to ever win a Stanely Cup and then miss the playoffs two years in a row. To think people said hockey wouldn't work in North Carolina. Based on the game I see here, we might be heading for a record (three years with no playoffs).
What do you know... I wanted to write about sports. Odd, I know very little about sports. I imagine it showed in my performance.
Leave me a comment if you like. Blogger's spell checker is MIA, so if I misspelled anything I blame them.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Timezone woes and NASCAR
I'm a bit of a NASCAR fan. I phrase it that way because it definitely seems to be waining a bit as time goes on. I used to watch more. Over time I've started watching less. There are a number of reasons for this. The big one is that the drivers I grew up following in my 20s were older than me and retired (or died), and I don't like the new younger drivers that replaced them as much.
The thing bugging me right now is that as the sport has become more national, and international, they start races later and later to accomodate the West coast viewers. Unfortunately yesterday's race was on the West coast and did not actually start until sometime after 6pm EST. This is a pretty inconvenient time if you typically have a "No TV during dinner" policy. Thankfully we also have a "Honey, its not TV, its sports" policy that is made to cover hockey and baseball, but can be exteneded to racing and football as well.
As I've blogged about before, California Speedway doesn't make for the most exciting racing. There's "plenty of room to pass". I imagine this is great if you're a race car driver, who doesn't want to have to bang into other cars in order to pass them. Unfortunately, its a bit boring if you're a spectator who likes ars to have to bang into each other in order to pass them.
So the race started late, and was the primetime viewing for Fox for the evening. Why would you pick what is bound to be a boring race to be one of the few shown in primetime? I came up with a theory this morning: The Oscars were on ABC.
The Oscars an annual television program where we celebrate movies that most of us have never heard of for being the best movies of the year. And more importantly the actors and directors tell us how we should feel about social and political issues. They obviously deserve our respect because they pretend to be other people for a living, which is far more noble than the "jobs" most of us do at "work". And as Opie and Anthony sometimes point out, anybody speaking into a microphone is an expert. Obviously the folks at NASCAR were trying to put their boring race on at the same time as the Oscars to try to make the race seem more exciting by comparison. Something called "Slumdog Millionaire" that I'm pretty sure I never heard of until people started talking about it winning Oscars won 743,987 awards.
As it turns out, the end of the race was pretty exciting, because there were times when Jeff Gordon got as close as half a mile to Matt Kenseth, who won the race. Frankly it is more entertaining when you're on the highway trying to a get picture of a good bumper sticker with your phone, but at least you don't get paid millions of dollars for that.
Love it? Hate it? Leave me a comment. Blogspot's spell checker is MIA, so if I misspelled a word just assume that I spell very well but made a typo and I am no longer able to identify typos if they don't have a squiggly red line under them.
"The Oscars" is some kind of trademark owned by somebody else... click the link they probably little r's and c's inside of circles that signify something.
The thing bugging me right now is that as the sport has become more national, and international, they start races later and later to accomodate the West coast viewers. Unfortunately yesterday's race was on the West coast and did not actually start until sometime after 6pm EST. This is a pretty inconvenient time if you typically have a "No TV during dinner" policy. Thankfully we also have a "Honey, its not TV, its sports" policy that is made to cover hockey and baseball, but can be exteneded to racing and football as well.
As I've blogged about before, California Speedway doesn't make for the most exciting racing. There's "plenty of room to pass". I imagine this is great if you're a race car driver, who doesn't want to have to bang into other cars in order to pass them. Unfortunately, its a bit boring if you're a spectator who likes ars to have to bang into each other in order to pass them.
So the race started late, and was the primetime viewing for Fox for the evening. Why would you pick what is bound to be a boring race to be one of the few shown in primetime? I came up with a theory this morning: The Oscars were on ABC.
The Oscars an annual television program where we celebrate movies that most of us have never heard of for being the best movies of the year. And more importantly the actors and directors tell us how we should feel about social and political issues. They obviously deserve our respect because they pretend to be other people for a living, which is far more noble than the "jobs" most of us do at "work". And as Opie and Anthony sometimes point out, anybody speaking into a microphone is an expert. Obviously the folks at NASCAR were trying to put their boring race on at the same time as the Oscars to try to make the race seem more exciting by comparison. Something called "Slumdog Millionaire" that I'm pretty sure I never heard of until people started talking about it winning Oscars won 743,987 awards.
As it turns out, the end of the race was pretty exciting, because there were times when Jeff Gordon got as close as half a mile to Matt Kenseth, who won the race. Frankly it is more entertaining when you're on the highway trying to a get picture of a good bumper sticker with your phone, but at least you don't get paid millions of dollars for that.
Love it? Hate it? Leave me a comment. Blogspot's spell checker is MIA, so if I misspelled a word just assume that I spell very well but made a typo and I am no longer able to identify typos if they don't have a squiggly red line under them.
"The Oscars" is some kind of trademark owned by somebody else... click the link they probably little r's and c's inside of circles that signify something.
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